The Irish standard., 1887-10-01

in AUsTRIA's CAPITAL.
a Jerky and Jinsle-L,lke Description
Life and Scenes in Vienna.

IN AUsTRIA's CAPITAL.
a Jerky and Jinsle-L.ke Description Of
Life and Scenes in Vienna.
Women here carry hods and mix
mortar. Peculiar class. From the
provinces. Wear long boots to the
knee. Short skirts to the boots.
Practical dress. But not ornamental.
Seven different costumes seen daily on
the streets. Laborers at noon lie down
and sleep on the pavements. Ditto in
the parks on the grass. No keep off
the grass at every turning. Polish
Jew frequent. In black gowns reach
ing to heels, high hats, and long cork
screw curls. Look like Othello. Big
dogs drawing hand carts. Street cars
won't stop for you. Only at certain
places. Indicated by sign-post on
track. The tub the universal vessel to
carry things in. Oval shape. One
stave longer than the rest So it can
be bound on the carriers back. Car
ries all the water up the six or seven
pairs OF stone stairs in the Vienna
houses. Clean clothes ditto for wash.
Separate shops for brandy, beer and
wine. Peasant on a spree carries
green twig stuck in his hat-band to in
dicate to the Vienna public his present
mental and moral condition. Hacks
hung low on the wheels. Drivers in
uniform. Every things in uniform
here. Fares low. Ten cents carries
you from Dombach to Leopolstadt.
Suburban villages five or six miles dis
tant. Emperor and Empress are fire.
quently seen driving on the streets.
No fuss; all hats go off as they go by.
Soldiers everywhere; sentries ditto, in
chronic condition of saluting officers.
Fleas abundant. Every body eats at
the restaurant. Vienna is all .restau-
rant on the ground floor. Little home
cooking is done. Melange and rolls
are the universal breakfast. Melange
is half coffee and half hot milk, always
brought you in a tall tumbler with a
big Tablespoon. Living here is very
public. If you hire room the chances
are you must pass through somebody's
bedroom to get to it, or have some one
pass through yours. Female help, in
different or oblivious to gentlemen
dodgers, come right in at all hours,
and without knocking, when on duty.
Stoves are like monuments, nine
feet high, covered with porcelain. The
furnace holds about two quarts of
coal. The rest is monument. Hand
some men, good shapes, full chests,
fine bass voices. A pleasure to sit
IN railway stations and hear the Of
ficials in charge call the trains. Hand
some women ditto. Every body out
on the street and shopping by eight or
nine in the morning. Nap at noon.
Gardens full of families dining in open
air at five p. m. They go it till nine.
Music, flowers, statuary all about.
Eating not done at gulp. More hap
piness to the square yard. Newspapers
small. Outside world disposed of in
about twenty lines. Lots of small
comic illustrated papers. "Trink-
halles" on every corner. Round pa
godas. Girl inside. No room for
more. Sells lemonade, orangeade,
soda water, and other light foggy
fluid. People here always swallowing
something.
Elevator at hotel Big fuss over it.
Two men in uniform to run it. Pace,
mile an hour Beds all single. Every
body seems to sleep single here. One
more bed on top of bed quilt. Very
light, full of feathers, in green silk
bag.
Barracks everywhere. Six stories.
Full of soldiers. Soldiers every
where. Drill ling everywhere. Drum.
ming everywhere. footing every
where. Soldiers marching past hote
at five in the morning. Always
getting ready to kill somebody. Same
all over Europe. Never out of sig ght of
a bayonet. Nations here are awfully
afraid of each other. Singular pumps.
Very tall. Long, crooked, iron handle.
Reach to the ground. Tobacco shops
all run by Government. Keep stamps
also. Invariable sign over door tx
K" Ring and Kaiser). The Emperor
does all the tobacco business. Not
much tobacco in their cigars. Washed
out. Prices of groceries and dry goods
always marked on article in shop win
dows. Helps one to learn the Ian
guage. Can read and translate as you
walk.
Cultivated shade trees lay over any
thing in America. Six rows, full grown
in some streets, with walks UNDER
meath. Foun tains, benches every
where. Business streets all shaded,
not bare to sun like Broadway or Fifth
avenue. Bath houses five stories high
Every body here really washes by the
bath and not by the bedroom wash
basin. No such place as Vienna known
in Austria. Austrian name, Wien.
From the bit of river running through
it. Danube river in rear of city. Tim
Der RATS always passing. Miles and
miles of cultivated pine forests in Aus
tria. Pass through them by rail. No
underbrush. Trees tall and straight